It’s already been 21 years since John Candy, star of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Spaceballs, Cool Runnings, and so much more, passed away in 1994 at the age of 43. If he were still alive today he’d be 65 years old, still too young to find out what awaits us after our time here on Earth—but unfortunately he left us far too soon many, many years ago.

Though I was still young when he died, Candy and his work were such a large part of my childhood that I still think of him from time to time and of course still enjoy his movies to this day. And, thanks to movies like Home Alone that are watched during the holidays every single year, younger people who might not have known who he was see him and might just seek out his other works because of it. The man lives on.

A tribute to John Candy was released recently titled Tell Me About John, which is composed of various clips of his work and recollections from those he had worked with. You can watch it below.

Everyone has been wondering since seeing Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy who might play Star-Lord’s (played by Chris Pratt) father in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

Nothing is official yet, but it’s being reported that Kurt Russell, the man behind Snake Plissken (Escape from New York), R.J. MacReady (The Thing), Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China), Wyatt Earp (Tombstone), Col. Jonathan ‘Jack’ O’Neil (Stargate), Stuntman Mike (Death Proof), and many others, has entered into early talks for the role.

Motion gaming was all set to be the next big thing a while back. But instead of getting the kinds of games we thought we were going to get, most of what we got was, well…crap, to put it bluntly, and it never took off like it was supposed to.

Now the NEXT big thing fast approaches: virtual reality! For years we’ve been seeing cool tech demos and videos of YouTube of people enjoying VR such as the Oculus Rift in various ways, but soon we’ll be seeing it go mainstream, with games developed solely for VR play. One such title is called The Climb, and it comes from developer Crytek, makers of the original Far Cry, the Crysis series, Ryse: Son of Rome, and Warface.

You can read more about the game and watch the first trailer below.

License to Quill
Paperback | Kindle Edition
by Jacopo della Quercia
St. Martin’s Griffin | Macmillan
Release date: December 15th, 2015

History says that Christopher Marlowe, a playwright who influenced William Shakespeare, was stabbed to death while embroiled in legal trouble, over words that may or may not have been his. But what if that was an act? What if this was the 16th Century version of the witness protection program? William Shakespeare takes over for that influential bard, and finds himself mixed up in The Gunpowder Plot (a group tried to assassinate King James, the King of England, Scotland, and Ireland). Guy Fawkes commissions him to write a play about “the abuse of power” set in Scotland, to rile things up a bit.

License to Quill by Jacopo della Quercia takes you through an exciting historical mystery – one in which you expect Shakespeare to utter, “Shaken… not stirred.”

More below.

A trailer for the next title in the Ice Age series has been released online by 20th Century Fox. The movie is the fifth animated feature to be released in the franchise since it began way back in 2002.

In the movie, titled Ice Age: Collision Course, a series of events unfold leading to a threat to the entire world. The voice cast once again includes Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, and many others, including a group of newcomers to the movies.

You can read an official synopsis and cast rundown and watch the trailer for Ice Age: Collision Course below.